Are you accused or beaten down?
Want to dream again? Reach your destiny?
DO NOT BE AFRAID.
Faith is moving without knowing.
No one can touch you, nothing can stop you.
You are UNBREAKABLE.All you need to do -- is trust
Something we should all remember.
"What I'm doing now," he continued, his eyes still closed, "is detaching myself from the experience."
Detaching yourself?
"Yes. Detaching myself. And this is important-not for someone like me, who is dying, but for someone like you, who is perfectly healthy. Learn to detach."
He opened his eyes. He exhaled. "You know what the Buddhists say? Don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent."
But wait, I said. Aren't you always talking about experiencing life? All the good emotions, all the bad ones?
"Yes."
Well, how can you do that if you're detached?
"Ah. you're thinking, Mitch.But detachment doesn't mean you don't let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That's how you are able to leave it."
I'm lost.
"Take any emotion-love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I'm going through, fear and pain from a deadly illness. If you hold back on the emotions-if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them-you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of pain, you're afraid of the grief, you're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails.
"But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely. You know what pain is. You know what love is. You know what grief is. And only then you can say, "all right. I've experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment."
Morrie stopped and looked at me over, perhaps to make sure I was getting this right.
"I know you think this is just about dying," he said. "But it's just like I keep telling you. When you learn how to die, you learn how to live."
Morrie talked about his most fearful moments, when he felt his chest locked in heaving surges or when wasn't sure where his next breath would come from. These were horrifying times, he said, and his first emotions were horror, fear, anxiety. But once he recognized the feel of these emotions, their texture, their moisture, the shiver down the back, the quick flash of heat that crosses your brain-then he was able to say, "Okay. This is fear. Step away from it. Step away."
I thought about how often this was needed in everyday lift. How we feel lonely, sometimes to the point of tears, but we don't let these tears come out because we are not supposed to cry. Or how we feel a surge of love for a partner but we don't say anything because we're frozen of the fear of what those words might do to the relationship.
Morrie's approach was exactly the opposite. Turn on the faucets. Wash yourself with the emotion. It won't hurt you. It will only help. If you let the fear inside, if you pull it on like a familiar shirt, then you can say to yourself, "All right, it's just fear, I don't have to let it control me. I see it for what it is."
Same for loneliness: you let go, let the tears flow, feel completely-but eventually be able to say, "All right, it was my moment with loneliness. I'm not afraid of feeling lonely, but now I'm going to put that loneliness aside and know that there are other emotions in the world, and I'm going to experience them as well."
"Detach." Morrie said again.
Passage from 'tuesdays with Morrie', author, Mitch Albom.
An amazing, and inspirational book. Wonderful life lessons through the eyes of a college professor, Morrie Schwartz.
"So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half asleep, even when they are busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning."
5 things found in my bag
-brochure
-maps
-folders with documents
-receipt
-kinokuniya magazine
5 things found in my wallet
-ID
-sweeney todd tickets
-switchfoot ticket. (;
-710?
-guitar picks
5 favourite things in my room
-my 3 guitars
-air cond
-bed.
-mp3 player turn radio
-DSLR
5 things I always wanted to do
-Know what I want
-Miss call every person on my contact list (only called 40% xD)
-tour the world
-Cycle around Malaysia
-Find that certain someone. (;
5 things I'm currently into
-Chor Dai Di
-Laughing
-Burnout
-Doing nothing
-Not looking forward to tuesday
List out the top 5 presents you wish for
-Travel Around the World
-No SPM?
-someone special. (:
-A band!
-Be spiderman. =DDD
The person who tagged you is: Chew Aileen
Your 5 impressions of him/her:
-So getting braces
-Ke-juggling-ness
-lucky person who gets to play for an audience
-crazy hyper
-Shorter than meeeeeee =DDD
Most memorable things he/she has give/done to you:
Quiksilver revolution tour. =)
If he/she becomes my lover, you will:
She'll eat the stuff I don't want. She will agree to buy food. =DD
If he/she becomes your enemy, the reason will be:
She didn't do a good job at picking good food. xD
Pass the quiz to 5 people that you wish to know how they feel about you
-This is just getting boring.
5 things found in my bag
(I don't have a bag so I'll search the pockets of my pants instead)
-Nokia headsets
-My handphone =DDD
-Wallet
-Keys to noneofyourbeeswax
-A leprechaun
5 things found in my wallet
-Guitar picks
-Switchfoot ticket
-IC Contoh xD
-40 Cents in total
-Receipts
5 favourite things in my room
-Guitar
-My egg shaking thing. ;D
-Porcelain throne.
-Bed
-My amazingly cool (as old as me) orchestra CD collection
5 things I always wanted to do.
-Start doing my homework.
-Kids. xD
-Start a band and tour the world
-Yes. Tour the world again.
-Retire with lots of money at the age of 20! =D
5 things I'm currently into
-Switchfoot, switchfoot and more switchfoot. =D
-Mandarin oranges
-(Oh my goodness) Add maths.
-evil schemes to get out of the house
-Talking. ;D
List out the top 5 presents you wish for:
1. Magical fridge that restocks food.
2. To skip SPM. ;_;
3. Migrate to whoknowswhere
4. To flyyyyyy. =DD
5. I wish I knew what I wanted. =/
The person who tagged you is: Lauren Chia Yan Hong
Your 5 impressions of him/her:
1. Short stuff. (;
2. Pinkcess
3. She plays the guitar, awesomely
4. Her and Suteng are stuck together like two peas in a pod. =D
5. camwhore.
Most memorable things he/she has give/done to you:
Let me mash cake into her face. Hehe.
If he/she becomes my lover, you will:
Toss and turn in my grave
If he/she becomes your enemy, the reason will be:
She becomes my lover? xD Or maybe when we just fight over stupid things. =D We wouldn't be enemies for very long though. Haha
Pass the quiz to 5 people that you wish to know how they feel about you:
Elisa Tan (Elyssaaa. (; )
Ruth Choy! (Blog darnit.)
Aileen (Imagine this. :D)
BenJ. (Before you leave you gotta do this. =D )
Lauren Chia. (Do again. xD)
Some say a picture is worth a thousand words.
If that were true, guess I wouldn't need to blog anymore! ;P
Well, pictures up first.More later. =)
Original CDs that I own.
Li Hsien got them signed for me. Thanks so much! ;P
Edit: Zhen told me Jon's signature was supposed to be where I labeled Jerome. -_-
Inside Oh! Gravity.
Darn sweet poster/ lyrics booklet
Oh! Gravity, why can't we seem to keep it together? =/
Edit: Switchfoot Tees!
Front
Back
So I lay my head back down, and I lift my hands and pray, to be Only Yours, I pray, to be Only Yours.
Cause I know that You're my Only Hope.
Currently listening to - The Shadow Proves the Sunshine; Switchfoot
The world is a terrible place.
Discrimination.
Poverty.
Peer Pressure.
Conformity.
Discontent.
Lust.
Corruption.
Fear.
Hunger.
Anger. Hatred.
Sadness.
Violence.
We should have been destroyed long ago.
Right now, I can't help but feel helpless.
Maybe time can't heal everything.
But I'm not ready. I'm not ready to lose everything.
Lord, I ask again, I plead.
God, grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the Courage to change the things I can; and the Wisdom to know the difference.
Of course, God had sent his Son down to earth, and he was crucified. His crucification led to all of us being able to freely talk to God and as well cleanse us from our sins.
Christmas is of course, the birthday of our Lord, Jesus Christ! Happy Birthday!
And why this year's christmas present is the best out of all my 16 years?
Switchfoot is coming to Malaysia!
THANK YOU GOD!
Saturday, February 2
Venue TBD*
Kuala Lampur, Malaysia
On sale: January 1
Ticket info coming soon!
Oh noes. I might have to skip BB. =X
But I can't help being so freggin excited. =DDD
This is definitely on my to do list. Or my to GO list.
I hope to see some familiar faces there!
Really stunned^ ^Elizabeth
Among all expressions, the one I adore most is the sight of a smile. It is contagious, self-gratifying, best of all, a gift, that is free.
What brings a smile?Sometimes I think
Like all I ever do
Is ask for things
Until I ask too much of you
But that's not the way (that's not the way)
I wanna live (I wanna live)
I need to change (I need to change)
But something's got to give
Yeah, something's got to
No one told me
How bad I need you (need you)
But I somehow arrived
To that conclusion all by myself (all by myself)
And I want
All you have to offer (to offer)
So I offer myself and I'll just give until there's nothing else
Yeah I'll give give give (until there's nothing else)
Give my life (until it all runs out)
Give give (and I'll have no regrets)
I'll give until there's nothing left
I'll give
There is a difference between being an acquaintance and being a friend. An acquaintance is someone whose name you know, who you see every now and then, who you probably have something in common with and who you feel comfortable around.
It's a person that you can invite to your home and share things with. But they are people who you don't share your life with, whose actions sometimes you don't understand because you don't know enough about them.
On the other hand, a friend is someone you love. Not that you are "in love" with them, but you care about them and you think about them when they are not there. The people you are reminded of when you see something they might like, and you know this because you know them so well. They are the people whose pictures you have and whose faces are in your head regardless.
Friends are the people you feel safe around because you know they care about you. They call just to see how you are doing, because a friend doesn't need an excuse. They tell you the truth, the first time, and you do the same. You know that if you have a problem, they are there to listen.
Friends are the people who won't laugh at you or hurt you, and if they do hurt you they try hard to make it up to you. They are the people you love, regardless of whether you realize it.
Friends are the people you cried with when you got rejected from colleges and during the last song at the prom and at graduation. They are the people that when you hug them, you don't think about how long to hug and who's going to be the first one to let go.
Maybe they are the people that hold the rings at your wedding, or maybe they are the people who give you away at your wedding, or maybe they are the people you marry. Maybe they are the people who cry at your wedding because they are happy or because they are proud.
They are the people who stop you from making mistakes and help you when you do. They are are the people whose hand you can hold, or you can hug or give them a kiss and not have it be awkward because they understand the things you do and they love you for them.
They stick with you and stand by you. They hold your hand. They watch you live and you watch them live and you learn from them. Your life is not the same without them.Friend And Acquaintance
by: Author Unknown, Source Unknown
Just before you watch this, make sure there is absolutely nothing to disturb you within this period of time.
Jennifer Lin, 14 (2004) musical prodigy. (Piano)
Sirena Huang, 11 (2006) musical prodigy. (Violin)
And day lights, craving
Sunshine on this frozen heart
I am wishing you well
Wondering how you are
If you and I are going under
Maybe we can both recover
And find forgiveness for each other
Even if this is goodbye
And time heals
But these scars keep on tearing us apart
And sometimes ending is the only place to start
If you and I are going under (going under)
Maybe we can both recover (we can recover)
And find forgiveness for each other
Even if this is goodbye
Is goodbye, is goodbye, is goodbye, is goodbye, is goodbye...
If you and I are going under
Maybe we can both recover
And find forgiveness for each other
Even if
If what we had is really over
If fate is out there we discover
Let's find forgiveness for each other
Even if this is goodbye
You know the truth, you found out. I told myself to let it go.
All I wanted for you was to aknowledge me as a friend. I understand you have your issues, I try to help. Maybe I shouldn't, since it usually ends abruptly, or silently, never pleasantly.
I've known you not for too long, but long enough for you to know me as well. But it doesn't seem to matter when all I can do is stand in the the sidelines and watch you crash.
I've tried and I've tried. I apologised many times.
I say things I don't realize it meant something. Please don't hate me for that.
I want to give up.
I want to start over move on.
But I don't think we need to until you want too as well.
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.
I looked at my BM paper. Flipped it several times looking throughly to decide which to answer first. (It was the essay paper, so I randomly picked one) After 10 minutes of staring blankly thinking of what to write, sentences in english start to form in my head. Sentences like, 'How do I bloody translate the whole essay into BM in my mind when all I ever think about is the english sentence in my head??"
I tried and I tried. Words began to form on paper, then came the string of sentences. Really broken and short ones. Finally, I am able to start the 'pendahuluan'. It wasn't long before I was stuck again, which was utterly frustrating.
I'm in Form 4 and the problem is that I still can't fully write a proper BM essay, nor can I do their 'pemahaman' well. (Grammar, in BM) It's a miracle that I got a B for my BM during PMR. In fact, I was stunned I got a B man, I thought I would get like what, a C? Fail would be out of the question since I actually put some effort into memorising pendahuluans for most of the essays just for PMR. xD
Totally related, but not necessary,
There is a story in the bible, where there was a time when mankind actually spoke only ONE language, they decided to build a magnificent tower, which would reach up to the heavens. God saw that, and decided to confuse the languages of all the men building on the tower, so that they may not continue. And so He did.
Explaination on why God did it, here.
Ben
Batman's Joker
I am so proud of my artistic camera skills.
This is the gang.
Su Teng kena cream by Jon!
Dana showing off how to make loose shirts fit. (Model, Teri)
Dana: You did whattt??
Entitled: Colours of Malaysia (One of our poster designs)
Poster Number 2! I love this design most out of all the others.
Poster No 3, Monopoly concept
Blues among the hue
Ms Liew giving a speech.. or something.
CF Committee '06It's always nice to look out the window
And see those very first few flakes of snow
And later on we can go outside
And create the impression of an angel that just fell from the sky
When February rolls around I'll roll my eyes
Turn a cold shoulder to these even colder skies
And by the fire my heart it heaves a sigh
For the green grass waiting on the other side
It's always winter but never Christmas
It seems this curse just can't be lifted
Yet in the midst of all this ice and snow
Our hearts stay warm cause they are filled with hope
It'd be so nice to look out the window
And see the leaves on the trees begin to show
The birds would congregate and sing
A song of birth a song of newer things
The wind would calm and the sun would shine
I'd go outside and I'd squint my eyes
But for now I will simply just withdraw
Sit here and wait for this world to thaw
And everything it changed overnight
This dying world you brought it back to life
And deep inside I felt things
Shifting everything was melting
Away oh away
And you gave us the most beautiful of days
Cause when it's always winter but never Christmas
Sometimes it feels like you're not with us
But deep inside our hearts we know
That you are here and we will not lose hope
I'll tell you flat out
it hurts so much to think of this
so from my thoughts I will exclude
this very thing that
I hate more than everything is
the way I'm powerless
to dictate my own moods
I've thrown away
so many things that could've been much more
and I just pray
my problems go away if they're ignored
but that's not the way it works
no that's not the way it works
when I go down
I go down hard
and I take everything I've learned
and teach myself some disregard
when I go down
it hurts to hit the bottom
and of the things that got me there
I think, if only I had fought them
If and when I can
clear myself of this clouded mind
I'll watch myself settle down
into a place where
peace can search me out and find
that I'm so ready to be found
I've thrown away
the hope I had in friendships
I've thrown away
so many things that could have been much more
I've thrown away
the secret to find an end to this
and I just pray
my problems go away if they're ignored
but that's not the way it works
no that's not the way it works
Any control I thought I had just slips right through my hands
while my ever-present conscience shakes its head and reprimands me
reprimands me
then and there
I confess
I'll blame all this on my selfishness
yet you love me
and that consumes me
and I'll stand up again
and do so willingly
You give me hope, and hope it gives me life
you touch my heavy heart, and when you do you make it light
as I exhale I hear your voice
and I answer you, though I heardly make a noise
and from my lips the words I choose to say
seem pathetic, but it's fallen man's praise
because I love you
oh God, I love you
and life is now worth living
if only because of you
and when they say I'm dead and gone
it won't be further from the truth
When I go down
I life my eyes up to you
I won't look very far
cause you'll be there
with open arms
to lift me up again
to life me up again
Seven things to be done before my death.
1. Get a girlfriend
2. Get baptised
3. Play in a band with an audience
4. Speak/preach in front of an audience
5. Master at least 5 instruments
6. Tour the world with someone
7. Get married
Seven things I will NOT do even if it kills me.
1. Let my relationship with God die down
2. Break contacts with my parents or siblings
3. Die a bachelor
4. BE GHEY (I will never turn homo)
5. Commit adultery or premarital sex
6. Suicide (Ironic isn't it)
7. Question the laws of physics
Seven things I do when I'm away from the public.
1. Take a shower
2. Zone out with my music
3. Stone with my music
4. Do my homework (cause i never do it anyway)
5. Miss call random people
6. Sleep (in class doesn't count?)
7. Plot total world domination
Seven fav sentences/quotes.
1. You suck, man
2. Fish you, man
3. You loser!
4. Hey you!
5. Drag a particular person's name (eg: lauuureeeeeeeennn!)
6. Giler bodoh la you
7. Oi!
Seven favourite songs from all time
1. So Much Love - The Rocket Summer
2. Only Hope - Switchfoot
3. Save - The Rocket Summer
4. (*Fin) - Anberlin
5. 23 - Jimmy Eat World
6. Deathbed - Relient K
7. Majesty - Delirious?
Seven things I'll make you wish you didn't do if you did.
1. Format my hard drive ( I will personally throw you out the window)
2. Assult me
3. Rob me of my pride and anything I care or stand for
4. Telling me I can't do things I know I can
5. Cause harm to any of my loved ones
6. Act all punk-ass with me
7. IngnoranceSeven Two people to tag.
1. Aileen
2. Beckeyh Choy
Taken from Grace punya friend: Lynn
Opening Credits: High Life Scenery - The Rocket Summer
Waking Up: Awakening - Switchfoot
First Day At School: My Evil Plan To Save The World - Five Iron Frenzy
Falling In Love: I'm Taking You With Me - Relient K
Breaking Up: What Goes Around... Comes Around - Justin Timberlake
Life's Ok: Waiting On The World To Change - John Mayer
Mental Breakdown: Somewhere I Belong - Linkin Park
Driving: 23 - Jimmy Eat World
Flashback: Only Hope - Switchfoot
Getting Back Together: Grace Kelly - Mika
Wedding Scene: Parent's Prayer - Steven Curtis Chapman
Birth of Child: Daughters - John Mayer
Final Battle: Everything - Lifehouse
Death Scene: Happy Birthday - Flipsyde
Funeral Song: Yesterdays - Switchfoot
End Credits: Burn Out Bright - Switchfoot
Signing out.
I don't know you anymore. I really don't.
*Saves as drafts*
*Accidentally clicks publish post*
"Oh shit."
;P
I'm really missing you right now. Although you might not know.
Relient K, Jefferson Aeroplaneif it hurts,
kiss it better
you wear skirts,
i write nice letters
never said nothing with flowers
though we always talked for hours
and it seems to get much colder
when you cry on your own shoulder
and we know the show
must go on
guess i know
i guess i'll throw on
some jefferson airplane
i'm trapped and i am enclosed
but i won't complain
i'll open all the windows
jefferson airplane
i'm trapped and i am enclosed
but i won't complain
i'll open all the windows
cause when it's colder
i feel much better
when i cry on my own shoulder
i'll just throw on a sweater and go
and i'll go to undergo a change of heart, a change of clothes
and when i'm home, i think i'll go eat cereal and stare out the window
i'll make the calls
you cover your ears
niagra falls
still flows on new year's
i will save
your plunging neck-line
kiss your face
you try to deck mine
if i behave it's going to cost him
stop the rave in downtown boston
and we know the show
must go on
guess i know
i guess i'll throw on
some jefferson airplane
i'm trapped and i am enclosed
but i won't complain
i'll open all the windows
jefferson airplane
i'm trapped and i am enclosed
but i won't complain
i'll open all the windows
cause when it's colder
i feel much better
when i cry on my own shoulder
i'll just throw on a sweater and go
and i'll go to undergo a surgery to purge me of this lonely mood
and my ego, the status quo, provides me with a decent attitude
and i'll go to undergo a change of heart, a change of clothes
and when i'm home, i'll think i'll go eat cereal and stare out the window
cause you confused me more than anyone
an adjustment has begun
to let me feel the desperate need to leave what we undid undone
and maybe you could sympathize
with the bags under my eyes
and we'll see the signs are saying that we have used up all our (tries)
try to be a better person
to be a better friend
to be a better son
he tries to be a better someone
that understands the difference
and that he can't show all the people all the things that really mean as much as he could (feel)
feels like i don't remember
ever being this tired (before)
before now my eyes were closed to all of the beauty in this world
jefferson airplane
i'm trapped and i am enclosed
but i won't complain
i'll open all the windows
jefferson airplane
i'm trapped and i am enclosed
but i won't complain
i'll open all the windows
cause when it's colder
i feel much better
when i cry on my own shoulder
i'll just throw on a sweater and go
and i'll go to undergo a surgery to purge me of this lonely mood
and my ego, the status quo, provides me with a decent attitude
and i'll go to undergo a change of heart, a change of clothes
and i'll go, oh yes, i'll go and hope the new me shows so everybody knows
that i've found myself able to fly away without magic feathers or jefferson aero planes
i've got with me all that i need
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